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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 3 2009, 04:08 PM (188 Views) | |
onmedic
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Feb 3 2009, 04:08 PM Post #1 |
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I have had corn out for about a month and a half. I have turkey tracks all around the feeder just out of camera range, well some walking in behind a ways but the turkeys will not come to the feeder? Will they not eat corn? seems odd with the cold , deep snow, that the turkeys will not eat the whole kernel corn. Tearing the crap out of the burrs that are left standing all around a wheat field. Anyone else find that the turkeys are not eating corn at their feeders? Bryan |
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Adrian J Hare
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Feb 3 2009, 06:19 PM Post #2 |
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Bryan, your area maybe hold enough feed yet that the birds don't need hand outs as of yet. If your seeing birds working the burr docks and Sumac trees then they still have feed, let a lone the standing corn still left in fields. I have been all over Ontario this last month and have not seen snow levels to overly bad yet except my area. The birds are not being seen a lot as most fields have been cut here. When they have lots of food sources then they don't need to come to feeders... |
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onmedic
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Feb 3 2009, 07:29 PM Post #3 |
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snow is about 3ft in the woods. I guess your right , there still picking all kinds of burrs and what not. Some of the high points in fields that were really wind swept are only about a 1/2 foot and i saw 6 birds this morning working a cut plowed cornfield. I figured if there eating out of that field its a heck of alot easier to stop at the feeder on the way by but i guess its really not natural for them to eat from a feeder. Bryan |
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the turkey guy
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Feb 4 2009, 08:16 AM Post #4 |
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the other thing to look at is the feed wet i know it sounds funny but if it's wet they leave it. i don't know if it smells or taste funny but i know with my birds if it's wet and old they will not touch it but if i keep it dry there on it fast. the other thing is it whole corn same thing cracked corn goes fast whole corn they pass it for the fields at my place rob. |
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| fjj243 | Feb 4 2009, 09:34 AM Post #5 |
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We fed them from large domestic turkey feeders but they would only eat there for a few days and move on. One bush we put loose corn in the gravel pit but they are coming up to the house to eat the bird feed that falls on the ground from the bird feeder instead of corn placed in pit? We have 2-3 feet of snow and there is not much food left above the snow, most of our turkey are in or near a cedar swamp eating the grass around a open spring? I fed them corn on the cobs, whole, cracked corn, small crab apples and soya beans, they left most of the soya beans? I have seen turkey walk by feed left in a spot within a few feet and never come to it? They may not see your feed or know your feeder holds corn and they sure will not smell it? We had the best luck feeding them by placing food where they are coming to feed? If they are near your feeder you may have to throw hand fulls of loose corn around feeder if it stays on top of snow. Tramp the snow hard around the feeder and if turkey see deer and squirrels feeding at the feeder this will help? |
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Feb 4 2009, 01:09 PM Post #6 |
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trust me turkeys do smell mold in corn no they don't smell well but when i feed my bird s food and it gets wet it sits for days and the same goes with food that sitting on the ground if there is nothing to eat they will but only a bit but if the food is dry and has been kepps dry they take it rob. |
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